2 posts tagged “music”

Last night Fernando took me to his favourite Mexican restaurant, where he sang boisterously along with the mariachi while I poured tequila down my throat and smiled idiotically. I asked Fernando what the best kind of pisco was and he said the only criterion for good pisco was its proof, i.e. the proof of the pisco is in the proof. Then we got into Fernando’s truck and drove to a nightspot called Brooklyn’s English Pub, where I drank 46% pisco and munched on popcorn while we waited for the band to come on. The band came on at midnight, by which time the place had filled up quite a bit, and opened bizarrely with Radiohead’s ¨Karma Police¨, before giving it large with the Chilean rock classics, and of course a U2 song, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme. We were sitting right in front of the band; the bassist could have pissed in my pisco. But I don’t think he did.

Music-wise, what was the first 45, single or download you bought? 
Submitted by Paddy Melt Wagon.

Music-wise? As opposed to what - video-wise? Ah yes, well. Actually I'm a bit of an old bugger in that I was around before not only downloads, but singles and 45's too! My first DVD was 'Ben Hur' on the old '78' format. Bloody exciting when it first came out, everyone straining round the clay tablets, spinning them as fast as our mammoth-flensing duties would allow!